Major and tracks at Urbana 09 included International Students, Arts and Media, Advocacy and Poverty, Business as Mission, Evangelism, Jesus and Justice, The Mission of Healthcare, and The Church Around the World.

Urbana 09 speakers included Ramez Atallah, General Secretary of the Bible Society of Egypt ; Shane Claiborne of The Simple Way in Philadelphia ; Ruth Padilla DeBorst, General Secretary of the Latin America Theological Fellowship ; Sunder Krishnan, Senior Pastor of the Rexdale Alliance Church in Ontario, Canada ; and Patrick Fung, General Director of OMF International.

Oscar Muriu, Senior Pastor of Nairobi Chapel, Nairobi, Kenya, spoke at both Urbana 06 and Urbana 09.

The Urbana 09 conference took place from December 27-31 in St Louis, Missouri and had an attendance of 15, 800.

HAL became operational on 12 January 1992, at the HAL Laboratories in Urbana, Illinois, as production number 3 ; in the film 2001 the activation year was 1992, and 1991 in earlier screenplays.

He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1951, and a visiting research professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign from 1952 to 1953.

Roger Joseph Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois, the son of Annabel ( née Stumm ) and Walter H. Ebert, an electrician.

Ebert's interest in journalism began as a student at Urbana High School, where he was a sports writer for The News-Gazette in Champaign, Illinois ; however, he began his writing career with letters of comment to the science fiction fanzines of the era.

Champaign was founded in 1855, when the Illinois Central Railroad laid its rail track two miles ( 3 km ) west of downtown Urbana.

Originally called " West Urbana ", it was renamed Champaign when it acquired a city charter in 1860.

Homer grew from a settlement named Union, which was on the Fort Clark or State Road running between Danville and Urbana, nearly three miles north of the present town.

Part of Pulteney was used to form the Town of Prattsburgh ( 1813 ) and part of the Town of Urbana ( 1848 ).

The real commercial boom of Brazilian rock was in the 1980s, with many bands and artists like Blitz, Gang 90, Barão Vermelho, Legião Urbana, Engenheiros do Hawaii, Titãs, Kid Abelha, Paralamas do Sucesso, and many others, and festivals like Rock in Rio and Hollywood Rock.

The first Urbana was held in 1946 in Toronto, and since then, it has generally been held every three years.

Because of insufficient space at the University of Illinois campus, Urbana 06 was moved to St. Louis, Missouri, at The Americas Center and the Edward Jones Dome.

An " International Student Track " was first offered at Urbana 2003, offering special housing options and electives to international students interested in spending time with other students from their respective countries.

Jennie Garth was born in Urbana, Illinois to John and Carolyn Garth, each of whom already had three older children from previous marriages: Johnny, Chuck, Lisa, Cammie, Wendy and Lynn.

Read was born in Urbana, Ohio, and studied at Ohio University, but left that institution a year before graduating to accept a warrant as a midshipman, effective 2 March 1839.

Dr. Lauterbur was a professor along with his wife Joan at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years until his death in Urbana.

The campus holds 286 buildings on in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana ; its annual operating budget in 2011 was over $ 1. 7 billion.

After a fierce bidding war between a number of Illinois cities, Urbana was selected in 1867 as the site for the new school.

This remained the official name for nearly 100 years, until it was changed to The University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign in 1982, ostensibly to establish a separate identity for the campus within the University of Illinois system.

Johnson was born in Champaign to Robert and Margaret Evans Johnson and spent his childhood in Urbana where he graduated from Urbana High School.

In 1971, Johnson was elected to the city council of Urbana, Illinois.

The premiere performance ( realization ) of the 4 ' 15 " work was given on March 21, 1953 at the University of Illinois, Urbana ( Chaudron n. d .).

Milnes was awarded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity's Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award at its 1982 national convention in Urbana, Illinois.

** Urbana ( convention ), a Christian convention formerly held in Urbana, Illinois

Urbana 06 again held a track for international students, as well as tracks that focused on the global HIV – AIDS pandemic, the growing business as mission movement, and the needs of the world's largest slum communities in the developing world.

At the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, the Graduate and Professional Students of Color student organization responded to a bake sale held by the Students for Individual Liberty by holding a White Privilege popcorn giveaway where white males received a full bag of popcorn, while women and non-whites received 1 / 3 of a bag.

America ’ s first “ women ’ s music festivals ” began appearing in the early 1970s, starting with day festivals at the Sacramento State and San Diego State University campuses, the Midwest Women ’ s Festival held in Missouri, the Boston Women ’ s Music Festival, and the National Women ’ s Music Festival at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign.

Week-long workshops, such as the Urbana 06 convention daily newspaper, Urbana Today, are held in various major American cities.

InterVarsity, Inter-Varsity Canada, and Groupes Bibliques Universitaires et Collegiaux of French-speaking Canada co-host Urbana Missions Conference, a triennial student missions convention, named for the campus town where it was held for many years.

The next Urbana will be held December 27 – 31, 2012.

The University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign first held a homecoming event in 1910, celebrating the 100th anniversary in 2010.

On May 27, 1924, Osborn's 6 ' 8-¼ " high jump set a world record at an AAU meet held at the University of Illinois campus in Urbana.

Foglio's drawing showed four happy little red daemon characters carrying tridents and climbing about on ( or falling off of ) water pipes in front of a caricature of a PDP-11 and was used for the first national UNIX meeting in the US ( which was held in Urbana, Illinois ).

After postdoctoral studies at Cornell University and Harvard University, he held faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and the State University of New York at Buffalo before joining Texas A & M in 1970.

Jackson held academic appointments successively at McGill University, thanks to Philip Russell Wallace, a prominent Canadian theoretical physicist, ( January 1950 – 1957 ); then the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign ( 1957 – 1967 ); and finally the University of California, Berkeley ( 1967 –).

She passed the entrance examinations to the University of Illinois, but during the year at Urbana felt more important events transpired at the University of Chicago.

* Lisa Nakamura ( 1993 ) ( 1996 ), Associate Professor of the Institute of Communication Research and Asian Studies School at the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana

He later graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a B. A.

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HAL became operational in Urbana, Illinois at the HAL Plant ( the University of Illinois ' Coordinated Science Laboratory, where the ILLIAC computers were built ).

For a five-day period, Stuart rested his men and entertained local civilians at a gala ball at Urbana, Maryland.

Project Gutenberg founder, Michael Hart, died on September 6, 2011 at his home at Urbana, IL at the age of 64.

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* July 4 – Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg.

* March – The University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign is established ( opened 1 year later ).

He founded the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and several other material research laboratories across the United States.

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This temperature is thus far not conclusively proven, though recent experiments conducted by the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign indicate temperatures around.

Category: University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign alumni

While at the University of Illinois, Ebert worked as a reporter for the The Daily Illini and then served as its editor during his senior year while also continuing to work as a reporter for the News-Gazette of Champagne-Urbana, Illinois ( he had begun at the News-Gazette at age 15 covering Urbana High School sports ).